Met with Todd last Tuesday. Lisa presented her and Andrew’s water refill station research. Todd gave verbal agreement to install 15-20 stations this summer!!! Give Andrew and Lisa a huge high five for their hard work on this effort.

SR 03 Update - spoke with Senator for USC. He is excited about Clemson’s leadership on this issue and thinks it will enable him to get similar resolution passed.

Nap Pod update - Jessica

SR 04 will be tabled for tonight. Please please please come with suggestions, concerns, ideas, or anything else that’s on your mind. Student leaders from across the country are excited about Clemson’s progress on this issue.

Thomas- Intramural Volleyball team; In between projects; Working with Marcel on Clemson Showcase, Bring High School students to campus and talk about financial aid, applying, etc. Targeted at underrepresented and low-income students

Purpose: To express Undergraduate Student Senate support for the allocation of the Hendrix Student Center bookstore space for the purpose of a Makerspace.

SS: move to table this bill because the authors are not present

SR 04 has been tabled for one week

New Business

Senate Bill 31

Author: Miller Hoffman

Sponsor: Jacob McMeekin

Purpose: To update the Executive Branch bylaws to reflect the appropriate changes to update the bylaws and procedures of the Executive Branch.

CJ: does this make the combining of the Finance Director and Executive Secretary permanent

JM: yes

CJ: Capital Improvement rollover?

JM: yield to Secretary Donovan

KD: so since the Student Activity Fee contributes $50,000 to Capital Improvement, if there is more rollover than that it shouldn’t all go back to the Student Activity Fee, so I’ve been meeting with Julie Garcia about that to determine some rules/regulations to follow for the future on Capital Improvement rollover, especially since for instance parking gives us $25,000 a year

AM: are you writing the Cabinet handbook out of the bylaws?

JM: yes

JS: move to send this bill back to F&P

SB 31 is back in F&P

Senate Bill 32

Author: Miller Hoffman

Purpose: To approve the recommended non-operational appropriations.

JS: is Army ROTC part of the Military Council?

MH: yes so they will come back in the Spring for budget hearings as part of Military Council, there were just some discrepancies with starting that this semester so they came in this time as a separate group

BB: why is the Homecoming Build retroactively funded?

MH: got a lot of donations this year, but these funds are pretty much solely for the costs of moving the house

BB: so they never came in for funding in the first place, and then had an additional expense and came in to you guys?

MH: yes exactly

JS: move to send this back to F&P

SB 32 is back in F&P

Senate Bill 33

Author: Miller Hoffman

Purpose: To approve the recommended operational appropriations.

AA: move to send this bill back to F&P

SB 33 is back in F&P

Senate Bill 34

Author: Miller Hoffman

Purpose: To approve the recommended emergency appropriations.

MP: what precautions are being put in place by Sailing Club to prevent future embezzlement?

MH: they did a ton of things, requiring sign-offs from advisor to withdraw large amounts, multiple names on bank account, etc. they have taken many steps to move forward

BB: relationship between funding board and club sports?

MH: good relationship, they mainly come in for one amount during Spring Budget Hearings, but you will see emergency funding come through for maybe unexpected tournaments they qualified for etc.

BS: is the Sailing Club funding for the dock?

MH: yes that is what they are working on and they showed us pictures of how that will look

MP: currently in the policy, things like gender, nationality, etc. are listed in there, so why do we need to add these in?

SM: the way we look at it, many other universities have expanded upon the above categories in their public Non-Discrimination Policy to make students feel welcome and want to come here

GI: gender identity and expression is a more specific way to differentiate gender and gender identity

MP: so we are adding these so students can have a more specific thing to look at when dealing with harassment?

SM: yep absolutely, it would also help raise our campus pride index which is currently the lowest of Top 25 public universities

CJ: how would administration go about making these changes?

SM: met with Lee Gill about how to do this, he agreed the policy needs to be updated, and the administration and Board of Trustees would need to see public support, hence this resolution, and then the legal advisor for their office would look into the specific language to use and take that to the Board

AO: could you explain the difference between national origin and citizenship?

SM: South Carolina has a law prohibiting undocumented students from attending a public university (besides DACA students), so this kind of goes beyond DACA students and is also a symbol to South Carolina to maybe re-look at that law

HO: and to touch on national origin, that doesn’t correlate with citizenship so you can be from somewhere but be a citizen somewhere else, etc.

BB: so if some of the semantics were to be changed, would that come back to us to see it?

SM: not exactly sure how that would go, from Lee Gill I think they would look at the legality and then see if it would be possible

HO: we also are using the same language that other colleges have been using

SM: exactly, we are not the first ones to do this, we’re using other universities as an example

JS: move to send this resolution back to HHS

SR o5 is back in HHS

Announcements

TM: working on CUSG resource list to just remind people of what CUSG does, and I’d like to update this every month so the student body knows what we do

MS: thank you from Jacovia to everyone who came to Dinner with the Deltas

JC: fill out my survey

DK: there’s going to be a clothing & toiletries drive to help people at the Safe Harbor House in Greenville, and one of the donation locations is the CUSG offices